According to Using Korean: a guide to contemporary usage, the Korean words really meaning something like "soft plastic" and "hard plastic", respectively. So "plastic bag" would most commonly correspond to 비닐봉지 /pinilpongci/ in Korean.

"Richmond is a real scholar; Owen just learns languages because he can't bear not to know what other people are saying."--Margaret Lattimore on her two sons

وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ خَلْقُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَاخْتِلَافُ أَلْسِنَتِكُمْ وَأَلْوَانِكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِلْعَالِمِينَ۝"And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your languages and your colors. Indeed in that are signs for those of knowledge." (Ar-Rum: 22)

Jika saya salah, mohon diperbaiki. If I make some mistake(s), please correct me.Forever indebted to Robert A. Blust for his contributions to Austronesian linguistics

"Cover" in English is used in reference to music to mean a version of a song performed by a different artist to the original one, in Portuguese they've sort of extended that to portraying an actual person. They have their own word for this already - sósia - but hey, English sounds sophisticated I guess...

[jɛsˈtiɖi] in Malayalam at least means a regular phone call (as opposed to a collect call), from the term standard trunk dialing. Probably not used much these days given the proliferation of cell phones at the beginning of the century.

vijayjohn wrote:[jɛsˈtiɖi] in Malayalam at least means a regular phone call (as opposed to a collect call), from the term standard trunk dialing. Probably not used much these days given the proliferation of cell phones at the beginning of the century.

At first I was like wtf is yestidi? Then I remembered S is pronounced yes in Mayalayam Malayalam.

Some people are familiar with that use of the term nowadays, but everyone at least used to know it to mean simply 'phone call'. I think it's still possible to find phone booths all over India with "STD" written in big letters on the side (usually vertically).

This -s infix has generalised to recent foreign loans in general: Latynosi, naczosy, czipsy... and in some cases (probably having to do with avoiding the vowel ending) it is carried back into the singular - on jest Latynosem.

vijayjohn wrote:[jɛsˈtiɖi] in Malayalam at least means a regular phone call (as opposed to a collect call), from the term standard trunk dialing. Probably not used much these days given the proliferation of cell phones at the beginning of the century.

In addition to meaning "service" in the general sense, 서비스 can also have the specific meaning of "something provided for free", e.g. 이 커피는 서비스 입니다. lit. "This coffee is a service" = "This coffee is on the house."

"Richmond is a real scholar; Owen just learns languages because he can't bear not to know what other people are saying."--Margaret Lattimore on her two sons